INSANELY long startup time

[dniq]

So, I've decided to re-play the game on PC (played it on PS4 a few times - both regular and VR versions) and... It takes nearly 5 minutes to just start the damn game!!! Even with all intros skipped - just to get to the point where I can load the 'Current' game takes about 5 minutes (screen with a reel winding up in the lower right corner)...

WTH???? That's on ASUS ROG MAXIMUS with Intel i9-10900K, two M2 SSDs (OS disk is Samsung EVO-870 2TB and the disk for the games is Sabrent Rocket 4TB), 4400MHz RAM, with EVGA ftw3 Ultra (RTX-3090) - THAT is not enough for a more than 4 year-old game??? :(

[talgaby]

Nah, it is some bottleneck in your software. Something is making the game load slowly. Cheap security software can easily do it. Nvidia's horrible Experience app can also do similarly weird bugs on games.

[dniq]

It's a clean Windows 10 Home install with only what came with Windows installed (besides the NVidia drivers and game launchers like Steam/Epic/Origin/UPlay)

[grobdor]

Check your drivers

[dniq]

Escrito originalmente por grobdor:

Check your drivers

All updates are installed. A few months later - even Windows got fully re-installed. Still takes several minutes watching the tape wind up at the bottom of the screen. What it's doing? Compiling shaders? Every single time?

[Waiting to Visit Japan (^.-)]

Mine takes 41 seconds from "Play" until I have control of the character.

It's on YOUR end.

[wulfbraker]

Escrito originalmente por dniq:

All updates are installed. A few months later - even Windows got fully re-installed. Still takes several minutes watching the tape wind up at the bottom of the screen. What it's doing? Compiling shaders? Every single time?

Hmm, are you sure you don't use disk compression and/or some of the game files are not compressed?

Check the folder/file properties of your installation folder. Right click the folder

 default path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RESIDENT EVIL 7 biohazard

-> Properties -> Advanced - > All of the checkboxes boxes are empty.
For reference: https://i.imgur.com/apuok8L.jpeg

Another thing might be antivirus intruding. E.g.: Steam install and library folders not added to its exceptions or just set to some "high sensitivity" mode).

Game should load in just a few seconds (at least on a SSD), if yours takes so long there's definitely something fishy going on your PC.

[Codester]

Op stop coping. Something wrong on your end. Just face it.

Im so tired of all you loud vocal minority people blaming the game on things that only one in ten thousand of you experience. From clicking play on my steam library it's less than 25 seconds for me to load into my file and begin playing. You will find basically everyone is less than 1 minute.

[Zombie Roger]

Escrito originalmente por Codester:

Op stop coping. Something wrong on your end. Just face it.

Im so tired of all you loud vocal minority people blaming the game on things that only one in ten thousand of you experience. From clicking play on my steam library it's less than 25 seconds for me to load into my file and begin playing. You will find basically everyone is less than 1 minute.

Escrito originalmente por Codester:

Op stop coping. Something wrong on your end. Just face it.

Im so tired of all you loud vocal minority people blaming the game on things that only one in ten thousand of you experience. From clicking play on my steam library it's less than 25 seconds for me to load into my file and begin playing. You will find basically everyone is less than 1 minute.

I agree with your timing. It takes me less than a minute to click play, and load a game and start where I left off. It’s hard to say why the op is experiencing that but I had the same issue with fallout 4 taking a really long time to load but after updating drivers and so on it now loads in a few seconds.

I would first look at my drivers and settings.

[EbonHawk]

One of my drives in my system started failing, where I had backups of my Steam games on, and it was the ONLY factor I could isolate as to why games suddenly took a long time to load.

I had my OS on my NVME M.2 SSD, with some Steam games there (that I was currently playing or might play), my Steam games on my 3TB HDD, and everything else on a 6TB HDD (no Steam games). Well, my 3TB started failing... I was trying to load a game stored on my SSD, but because my other Steam library was on the 3TB drive that was failing, it seemed to take forever for some games to even load off the SSD. My only solution to the problem (and I tested it) was to physically disconnect that 3TB drive from the motherboard, and suddenly games loaded like normal, Windows started up in just a few seconds (15s) vs several minutes...

My theory: Steam was heavily trying to access that failing 3TB drive and was doing all sorts of things in the background, and it was killing disk access to the SSD...? Never heard of that before, but plugging the 3TB drive back up and restarting my system brought all those issues back again. So, I immediately copied everything I wanted off my 3TB drive onto my 6TB drive, and then I removed that 3TB drive permanently, and now no more issues.

Just an example of how something "totally unrelated" could be causing issues. Love computers, but I get frustrated by troubleshooting sometimes, especially when it doesn't make any direct sense what's going on.

[7igma957]

Another hardware troll..........
Do not feed him!
Reported for trolling!

[dniq]

It’s installed on a 4TB m.2 SSD. And no, no compression. And even if there was compression - it’d take 0.0001% of my CPu power (i9-10900K at 5300 MHz).

Escrito originalmente por westblade85:

Escrito originalmente por dniq:

All updates are installed. A few months later - even Windows got fully re-installed. Still takes several minutes watching the tape wind up at the bottom of the screen. What it's doing? Compiling shaders? Every single time?

Hmm, are you sure you don't use disk compression and/or some of the game files are not compressed?

Check the folder/file properties of your installation folder. Right click the folder

 default path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RESIDENT EVIL 7 biohazard

-> Properties -> Advanced - > All of the checkboxes boxes are empty.
For reference: https://i.imgur.com/apuok8L.jpeg

Another thing might be antivirus intruding. E.g.: Steam install and library folders not added to its exceptions or just set to some "high sensitivity" mode).

Game should load in just a few seconds (at least on a SSD), if yours takes so long there's definitely something fishy going on your PC.

[dniq]

So, looks like something odd was going on with shader cache. Cleared cache - everything is good now.

First startup after that took about 7 minutes, but subsequent starts are pretty fast. Previously all startups would take about 7 minutes, so it wasn’t caching the compiled shaders, apparently.

[SiLenCe]

Escrito originalmente por dniq:

So, looks like something odd was going on with shader cache. Cleared cache - everything is good now.

First startup after that took about 7 minutes, but subsequent starts are pretty fast. Previously all startups would take about 7 minutes, so it wasn’t caching the compiled shaders, apparently.

Thank you for this. I cleared the shader cache following these instructions from a reddit user (https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/165h4pv/constant_shader_recompilation_steps_to_clear_the/ ) and it fixed my issue too. It didn't take that long to open for me (about 30 seconds) but before I had this issue, it was very fast (about 3 seconds). After fixing it, it went back to 3 seconds.

My issue started happening after messing around with REFramework.